Thursday, 12 January 2017

Paul Craig Roberts on Trump dossier

The
latest “explosive” fake news is that “multiple US officials
with direct knowledge” told CNN that they have “classified
documents” that Russia has compromising documents on Trump that
would allow them to blackmail the US President. The documents consist
of memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative “whose
past work US intelligence officials consider credible.”

According
to antiwar.com “the dossier claimed several figures in the Trump
campaign were in league with the Russian government during the
campaign, and that Russia had been conspiring with them to groom
Trump as an ally for ‘at least five years.’ It also claims
exchanges of information between Trump and the Kremlin for ‘at
least eight years,’ . . . The dossier names former Trump adviser
Carter Page, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, as well as incoming
National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as having personally and
repeatedly met with Kremlin officials on anti-Clinton leaks.”

Lt.
Gen. Michael Flynn is the former Director of the Defense Intelligence
Agency. If such a high level US intelligence official is repeatedly
meeting with Kremlim officials and the CIA has to learn about it from
memos written by an unidentified former British intelligent agent,
the CIA is totally incompetent.

The
dossier claims that in Russian hands are videos of “wild sex
parties” staged by Trump on his numerous trips to Moscow. And it
gets wilder.

The
New York Times also ran with the story but did state that there was
at the present time no confirmation for the story.

Consider
these three questions:

How
would a former British intelligence operative get such extraordinary
documents from Russian intelligence?

If
he had such documents, why would he hand them over instead of selling
them to Trump for a major fortune?

Why
would such a crazy story be on CNN and in the New York Times unless
the ruling establishment intends to use it to block Trump from the
presidency?

What
this elevation in wild charges tells me is that the CIA’s effort to
sell Trump on the Russian hacking did not succeed, and the CIA has
escalated its attack on the president-elect.

Dr.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He
was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and
Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His
internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic
Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.

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